Everything Is Going Up 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 14 Jul 2009
2009

When I was just a little kidlet
once upon a time,
my mother used to send me
to the store with just a dime,
and I'd bring home a sirloin steak
quite big enough for three,
and mother dear,
the good old soul
would give the change to me.
Then eighty cents bought me a hat
all trimmed with silk and plush,
Today I paid a dollar
for a plate of oatmeal mush.

Ev'rything is going up,
going up
and now the price of gasoline
is sixty cents a cup.
You pay as much for calico
as mother paid for silk
and you used to get champagne
for what they're charging now for milk.
The latest style in ladies' shoes
go way up to their knees,
It's shocking how much stocking
ev'ry man on Broadway sees,
and the dresses they're no higher
on the Island of Hawaii
for ev'rything is going,
going, going up.

Ev'rything is going up,
going up
and now the price of gasoline
is sixty cents a cup.
You pay as much for calico
as mother paid for silk
and you used to get champagne
for what they're charging now for milk.
The latest style in ladies' shoes
go way up to their knees,
It's shocking how much stocking
ev'ry man on Broadway sees,
and the dresses they're no higher
on the Island of Hawaii
for ev'rything is going,
going, going up.

When I grew up I used to take
my girl to see a show
and after it was over
to a restaurant we'd go,
and how we would enjoy ourselves
it surely was immense.
And I remember once it cost me
nearly twenty cents.
Just take a hundred dollar bill
along with you today
and go the route
and try to make it
last you all the way.

Ev'rything is going up,
going up
they pay ten thousand dollars
for a Pomeraman pup.
You buy a hat for "ten"
and that's the price that they expect,
It costs you fifteen dollars
ev'ry month to have it checked.
The Russians run so fast
and they wear out so many shoes.
The price of leather's altogether
higher now than booze.
And now Tiffany is getting out
a ring with coal for setting
for ev'rything is going,
going, going up.

Ev'rything is going up,
going up
they pay ten thousand dollars
for a Pomeraman pup.
You buy a hat for "ten"
and that's the price that they expect,
It costs you fifteen dollars
ev'ry month to have it checked.
The Russians run so fast
and they wear out so many shoes.
The price of leather's altogether
higher now than booze.
And now Tiffany is getting out
a ring with coal for setting
for ev'rything is going,
going, going up.

On Saturday when work was o'er
my dad would bring home "ten"
My mother paid the grocer
and the butcher too and then
She'd lay away a little
for the old piano man
who sold us our piano
on the monthly payment plan.
We never went without a thing
my ma was strong on "eats"
the other day I paid ten dollars
for a peck of beets.

Ev'rything is going up,
going up
it costs you fifty dollars
in a restaurant to "sup."
A fellow bought a hundred thousand
shares of Beth'lem steel,
and now the neighbours say
that he has eggs at ev'ry meal.
They weigh things by the carat
that they once sold by the peck.
The ladies wear their waist line
where they used to wear their neck.
If you are not a great winner
you can eat and still grow thinner
for ev'rything is going,
going, going up.

Ev'rything is going up,
going up
it costs you fifty dollars
in a restaurant to "sup."
A fellow bought a hundred thousand
shares of Beth'lem steel,
and now the neighbours say
that he has eggs at ev'ry meal.
They weigh things by the carat
that they once sold by the peck.
The ladies wear their waist line
where they used to wear their neck.
If you are not a great winner
you can eat and still grow thinner
for ev'rything is going,
going, going up.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Everything Is Going Up 1917
Comic Song
Music by Albert Gumble
Lyrics by Stanley Murphy
© MCMXVII by Jerome H.Remick & Co. - New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 14 July 2009 at 16.43
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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